I mean, its old hat by now, but when I stop to think about Pokemon as a concept, I'm still astounded by it. Capturing monsters in RPGs might not've been anything new at that point, but raising them to evolve, trading them and battling with friends? Plus Second Gen adding a real time Day/Night Cycle the region from the previous game, AND an EX dungeon with the previous protagonist as a secret boss? God that's so cool!

I'll admit, I fell of the Pokemon Hype Train a decade ago, but I still think the franchise is really creative.